KU to be recognized for transgender education support

Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project announced Monday it will be awarding its K-STEP Key award to The University of Kansas at an awards banquet on Aug. 24, according to a news release. The award is in appreciation of KU’s support of transgender education.

KU chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will accept the award on behalf of the university.

“Each year, we recognize an organization or institution that has been instrumental in helping provide education regarding people who are transgender and the issues we face,” said K-STEP executive director Stephanie Mott, of Topeka. “Hundreds of students at The University of Kansas have been given the opportunity to have a greater understanding, and each of them takes that understanding into the world.”

K-STEP is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that formed in August 2010 for the purpose of bringing an end to discrimination against transgender people and their families through education.

K-STEP also will be recognizing several of the university’s professors and instructors, as well as the Lawrence, Salina and Hutchinson chapters of Kansas Equality Coalition for their efforts in raising awareness about transgender discrimination and working for equality.

The awards banquet will take place from 6:15 to 8 p.m. at Maceli’s, 1031 New Hampshire in Lawrence. The event is open to the public, but seating is available by reservation only. Tickets are $15.

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"That is just like extending a welcome mat to Gays, Bestiality enjoyers and anything else of deviant nature"

"How Disappointing Not an award I would be happy about"

I guess I just don't get it. Homosexuality != Beastiality. Oh man, that guy loves another guy. What a deviant. It just doesn't make sense to me. They should be proud of the award. And yes, it is hatred.

Award for support??? Transgenders are just people confused about whether their Maker intended them to be male or female, and in nearly all cases, just need to be encouraged to accept the results of a simple visual test to determine their role in life. In the very few cases where the visual test leaves doubt or ambiguity, a DNA test settles the matter.

God has nothing to do with this, true transgender is probably a genetic thing like being gay or straight, so if all is created by God, and he created us all, and you claim that transgender is and being gay and straight is not right, then your God is pretty stupid for creating them,and them making you hate them all the same. Makes Him be some kind of creep.

Here is the link for the group, look, and find about more about what they are talking about. Transgender surgery has been recognized since the 1950s, these are real people with real needs.http://k-step.org/

My awareness and consciousness have been raised so high and often that it exceeds my capacity to care. I wish these people no harm but I just don't care about their issue. Everyone has challenges. You deal with them and go on. It doesn't mean the entire universe is your support group.

My compliments to jacovdog, whose awareness and consciousness have been raised so high that he(?) doesn't care. That's what K-STEP is all about! Jacovdog has apparently learned well that trans-people are, in all important ways, just ordinary people, so our existence is not a problem. That is the ideal.
Upon invitation K-STEP will speak to any group whose members want to learn. Get the details at www.k-step.org.